RES Library Media Center News

Third graders with their summer library books. Happy reading everyone! 2016-2017 at the RES library, by the numbers: Number of library books and other materials checked out by RES scholars, families, and staff : 15,388 Number of TumbleBooks electronic books read and listened to: 2,049 Number of uses of PebbleGo science and social studies electronic databases: 2,206 Number of uses of  Culturegrams social studies database: 688 since we subscribed to the database in March Number of scholar visits to the library: over 8,000 Number of scholars served by librarian visits to classroom: over 2,000 Number of summer library books in staff members' and students' hands for the summer: 1,860 Happy reading!  Thanks for a fabulous school year of reading and creating! - Beth Redford, RES School Library Media Specialist

Fourth graders gathered on Wednesday, June 14 to share their Capstone Projects and celebrate their learning at our Capstone Celebration. These fourth graders have been participating in a once a week class, co-taught by teacher-librarian Beth Redford and enrichment teacher Darcie Rankin. The class focuses on digital literacy, critical thinking, research skills, and interest driven projects. Scholars’ culminating activities were independent, interest driven research projects. Each scholar selected a topic and designed a Capstone Project to share his or her interests and knowledge. We are so proud of all our scholars! Thank you very much to our District's Director of Curriculum, Communication and Innovation, Mike Berry for visiting our Capstone Celebration to capture our scholars' learning and pride in the video below.

Fourth grade scholars at RES have been participating in a once a week class, co-taught by teacher-librarian Beth Redford and enrichment teacher Darcie Rankin. The class focuses on digital literacy, critical thinking, research skills, and interest driven projects. Scholars’ culminating activities were independent, interest driven research projects. Each scholar selected a topic and designed a Capstone Project to share his or her interests and knowledge. Fourth graders teaching parents and peers about rabbits, video game design,  ballet, computer hardware and more at our Capstone Celebration Fourth graders gathered on Wednesday, June 14 to share their Capstone Projects and celebrate their learning at our Capstone Celebration Digital versions of many of the projects are available at the links below: Mrs. Berliner's Class Capstone Presentations Mrs. LeFrancois' Class Capstone Presentations Ms. Senning's Class Capstone Presentations

Here a few samples of the Capstone Presentations created in Enrichment Library class by RES fourth graders. The scholars developed their own research questions, which are shown above the presentations that answer them. We are very proud of all our fourth grade scholars! We will be posting all the projects for all three classes on the Enrichment Library class blog, ThinkCreateCollaborate , in the upcoming week. Why are things named the way they are? Why would someone make an instrument? (trifold poster plus handmade instruments) What was it like in England on the home front during World War II?

Once again this summer the RES library media center will be holding summer book checkouts! Scholars in kindergarten and grades one, two, and three will be able to check out up to 10 books from the library media center and take them home for the summer. Starting on Thursday, June 15, scholars will be bringing home “Carry Out a Good Book” bags with their summer library books. Each scholar will also get a note explaining the program and a list of books he or she has checked out for the summer. The books will be due back when school starts in the fall. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact our library media specialist Beth Redford at 434-2461 or beth.redford@cesuvt.org .

"Volcano," a two-word concrete (shape) poem by an RES second grader Second graders writing concrete poems May 2017 at the RES library, by the numbers: Number of library books and other materials checked out by RES scholars, families, and staff:  1708   --  that's 78  items per day in our 22 days of school this month Number of TumbleBooks electronic books read and listened to : 132 Number of times scholars used the PebbleGo nonfiction research database:  219 Number of times scholars used our new CultureGrams database to learn about geography and cultures:  128 Number of scholar visits to the library:  over 900  (14 classes per week plus additional class visits plus individual visits) Number of scholars served by librarian visits to  classrooms:  over 150 Number of second graders who wrote concrete (shape) poems in connection with their classroom poetry unit:  48